journalism ethics

What the latest Project Veritas flop can teach us about undercover media work.

Jack Shafer

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Project Veritas went undercover and got buried in its own muck this week. Although the organization garnered few defenders inside or outside of journalism, its nutty ploy reprised the century-and-half-old debate over the uses of this kind of deception in reporting.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/30/fourth-estate-project-veritas-james-okeefe-215991

Prompted by the Washington Post's coverage of the Walter Reed facilities, Adam Reilly at the Boston Phoenix writes an article about the dubious ethics of giving credit among journalists. Crediting the reporting of your predecessors can sometimes be of vital importance to the covered story and its claims to truth.